The southern African nation of Malawi has started a cholera vaccination rollout this week in a bid to stem the threat of a ...

Here's what cholera is, what causes it and how it can be prevented and treated.

The role that flies play in spreading cholera—a bacterial disease that causes severe diarrhea and dehydration—has been ...

As cholera continues to surge — and as vaccines remain in short supply — experts are warning about the global risk. Cholera is a bacterial disease typically spread by food and water, leading to severe ...

Cholera remains a major global public health challenge, with an estimated 1.3 to 4 million cases and tens of thousands of ...

Ebonyi State Government and the UNICEF have agreed to deepen collaboration to tackle open defecation, cholera, child ...

A Norwegian cruise ship with over 2,000 passengers and 1,000 crew on board was given permission to dock in Mauritius on Tuesday after being denied permission over fears of a potential cholera outbreak ...

The local authorities in Duk County, Jonglei State, have raised an alarm over a rapidly spreading cholera outbreak affecting ...

A pandemic emerges. It spreads around the world, claims lives and devastates economies for decades. Climate change makes it even deadlier. It infects hundreds of millions of people and kills millions, ...

An unprecedented shortage of cholera vaccine has public health experts fearing that a recent surge of outbreaks across developing countries will only worsen, a situation they argue is as regrettable ...

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In early 2022, nearly 200,000 Malawians were displaced after two tropical storms struck the southeastern part of ...

The bacteria—V cholerae—colonize the small intestine where they secrete a potent enterotoxin. This toxin does not damage the intestinal lining but leads to the overproduction of cyclic AMP, which ...